So this is a challenging year. Its historic in terms magnitude skull. And it also has required us a deep reservoir of resource. California is experiencing a record wildfire season with more than 2 million acres already burned our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains how state leaders are bracing for the months ahead. With still months left in whats considered californias traditional fire season in the fire fight is far from over so far this year 2. 3 million acres burned for more than 7500 fires compared to 118,000 acres burned by this time last year its rather the challenge that we faced again so far this season, the governor said there are 900 active wildfires, 25 of the major including the second 3rd and 4th largest wildfires in the states modern history, 8 people have died in a more than 42,000 people have been forced from their homes while this record fire season. Rages on in september in the last few years some of the states most destructive fires happened in october an
Coronavirus and then. We begin in the u. S. City of kenosha where reinforcements are being deployed as outrage continues to grow over the Police Shooting of a black man jacob blake President Trump says he has called in the National Guard following 3 straight nights of protest which have occasionally turned violent in the most serious incident 2 people were shot dead a young white man has been arrested investigators have named the officer who shot blake in the back 7 times as rust and sure i say that blake who is now recovering in hospital had a knife in his car at the time. Mr blake walked around his vehicle open the drivers side door and leaned forward while holding on to mr blakes shirt officer ruston chef ski fired his Service Weapon 7 times officer he fired the weapon into mr blakes back during the investigation following the initial incident mr blake admitted that he had a knife in his possession and the cia agents thats the division of criminal investigation recovered a knife fro
Here 110 pounds of high grade fireworks seized by Oakland Police this week. Weve had over 15 fires, you know, wild land fires in the city of oakland just since monday whi w would normally see. Reporter the Oakland Fire Department is braced for a tough fourth of july weekend. Theyre bringing in more engines. Weve also staffed three Additional Fire am rat us that will be patrolling, in the city, specifically at lake merritt. And then we have two Additional Fire apparatus that will be patrolling. Reporter theyve also got a dozen volunteers armed with ham radios ready to scan the horizon for smoke or flames. It is similar to the setup on the peninsula. The enhanced use of our emergency volunteers, close to two dozen of them, at various locations, is really important. If heaven forbid a Bottle Rocket lands in the dry brush up in the hills, our only chance of suppressing that in a timely manner is getting early eyes on that, early detection. We will be in foot hill park reporter theyre among
Like this, go for it. So the annual gilroy fireworks display will fill the skies. Just a great morale booster. Many say they support the decision to move forward with the show. Fireworks will be at Gilroy High School and will go higher than in years past. Those homes in lines of sight will watchful. We wont have the people over for the traditional good americana barbecue and all that. Were trying to keep it as normal as possible. Reporter some of the roads around the school as well as nearby parks will be blocked off to prevent clouds from gathering. Security guards have been hired to patrol the area and extra police and fire crews will be on hand throughout the weekend. Safe and sane fireworks are being sold throughout the city to help support local nonprofit organizations. So they are spending a little more money than normal to enjoy a bigger selection at home. Officials reminding residents of their personal responsibility to follow the rules. Stay at home, stay safe, and enjoy the f
Crosshairs of this as well but as a general rule this is something that amateur rappers are facing and there are a number of reasons for that but one of them is i mean above and beyond the fact that they lack the name recognition that well known artists like tupac or have its that theyll select the resources to mount anything like a vigorous defense and so they become more vulnerable its easy for prosecutors to use rap lyrics against these young amateurs either to get convictions or more often to scare them into taking a plea bargain when we dont have the help in the pony you say we dont really know the extent. To which people have been incarcerated for in essence rob because most of our forces are a lot of them are forced to play out thats exactly it we dont have a sense of the true numbers the truce scale of any of this i mean we know that the 5 or so 100 cases that weve identified are just scratching the surface but thats exactly right were certain that the majority of these cases w